As some of you may already know, inactive e-mail accounts are purged much like neopets accounts are. After 90 days, e-mail providers such as hotmail and yahoo will delete the associated e-mail accounts. People have found out that by creating these old purged e-mails that they can get access to neopets usernames and passwords.
How?
Through this new neopets feature:
It's as simple as that: people make user bots/manually check for e-mail accounts to see if they are associated with a neopets account, and if they are, they attempt to create the account, hoping the e-mail has been purged
Result?
As a result, THOUSANDS of new accounts, items, UC pets have been released onto the market. This is one of the reasons for the major deflation of the cheaters' NP prices. Neocodex does not condone the trading of accounts that don't belong to us. While most of these (I highlight "most" not "all") accounts are inactive, people could one day want to log back onto their account to find it frozen. Regardless, rules are rules, follow them.
Why are you telling us this:
This is the real warning: TNT is extremely aware of this going on, and have cracked down on these unregistered e-mail shells. At first everything seems fine, "25k for a 7 year shell?! FUKJA!" But then this occurs:
This is the trademark of an unregistered e-mail account. Every so often, TNT will find all of these accounts and ice them regardless if you use them or not. If they have been inactive for years, switch an entirely new IP, change passwords, start playing games, basically anything, they will get iced within the month. Even if you're just logging in to play legit to feed your pixels other pixels so they don't turn blue, eventually you will get iced.
So what's your point exactly?
My point is: unregistered e-mail accounts are dirty and if you buy them, whether if it's the e-mails themselves, or the accounts, you will most likely get iced relatively soon. I restate that the trading of unregistered e-mail accounts are not allowed on Neocodex. That being said, we can't control what you do offsite. But if you see a 3+ year shell going for a price that seems to good to be true, it probably is. How do you know if your new shell is from an unregistered e-mail account: Well, you don't, that's the problem. We have no proof. Even if the "trademark" warning is not enough proof that the account is from an unregisted e-mail; it's just heavily implied. Thus if you buy an account from here and you get that message, we will not be able to prove that that user is dealing with unregistered e-mail accounts. That being said, still report the incident so the mods have more reason to check up on the user.
How do you know all this exactly?
I admit: before I had any idea what unregistered e-mail accounts were, I bought a bunch of shells (I remember going to Georgie going "look how cheap they are! wtf?!"), all of which were iced with that error message about two weeks later. I cheated on about 3 of them, but the other 7 were untouched, but they all got that iced message above. All items, accounts, pets, etc. that come from these are "dirty" and can get people iced; the problem is how do you know if these things came from an unregistered e-mail? You don't! Even retired mains with 300+ avatars and high end UC pets can be from an unregistered e-mail. And just because a user says "it's my legit main" does NOT make it true. Would you want to spend upwards of hundreds of dollars just to have your account iced because it was from an unregistered e-mail? Of course not!
This is my final warning: it's against the rules to trade unregistered e-mail accounts, items, pets, or anything associated with them. If a new trader is selling bulk accounts for cheap, chances are they're from unregistered e-mails. If someone is "QS UC pets", they might be from unregistered e-mails. Using a middleman will NOT help the situation either.
So everyone, be careful, don't trade with users with offers that are too good to be true, and if you have any questions/comments/arguments, post below
Cheers,
Boggzorzzzzz
Final note: I know simply by inspection that there are people trading unregistered e-mail accounts on this site. We have no proof because maybe you just want to undersell yourself, but be warned... yeah, that.
Edited by Boggart, 14 May 2011 - 08:27 AM.